"R. Armiento" wrote: > I discovered and reported it yesterday. My personal feelings about the > issue isn't that strong, and apparently neither is the feelings of > the maintainers that have had the time to look at it so far. However, > given the recent debacle about explicit content in debian (the > "hot-babe" issue) I expect there to be people out there who do > feel very strongly about it and perhaps even think it is a sarge release > showstopper. [...]
Is R Armiento trolling and trying to block release? I can only wonder at the motives. > > Policy issue? Which bit of policy? [...] > Isn't the lack of policy also a policy? No, it's a lack of policy about something. Is the lack of intelligence a type of intelligence? > > [...] Can you quantify "often" please? > That depends of course on the user's definition of "sexually explicit > images". In my current workplace environment, I would feel embaressed > for about 1 out of 10 images. This means that in almost every Collage > there are a few images involving nudity or 'worse'. [...] So, this 1 in 10 is about nudity rather than pornography? That leads me to wonder about the bug reporters' definition of nudity. Is a revealing top with lots of flesh counted as nudity? Would the infamous ubuntu nipples be pornography? > > Really, any site that gives a toss about accidental images > > should be using a filtering proxy, IMO, so I don't agree > > that this should lose anyone their job. normal not important. > Good argument. However, there are workplaces out there who do not > run filtering proxies, or become upset when people trigger the filters. > It just might not be enough comfort for a person who get in trouble for > this, that you don't agree with his company's policy. There are workplaces which don't allow you to use encryption, yet we're not tossing out the encryption libraries. If a workplace has policies so important to them which kscreensaver doesn't accommodate, maybe they should ban kscreensaver. -- MJ Ray (slef), K. Lynn, England, email see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
